From: Peter Carter
Date: May 13 1999 11:30am
Subject: Re: [myODBC]
List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/myodbc/237
Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19990513073024.009d4ac0@gorf.pbc.ottawa.on.ca>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

At 02:15 PM 5/12/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello there,
>
>We've developped an application with VB5 to link a Linux MySQL database.
>In this DB we've put some pictures (jpeg & gif) via php3 and Linux box.
>
>This pictures can be displayed with our VB soft on our Win98 box.
>
>But :
>- when we put pictures with the VB soft, all is wrong : we can't read
>pictures. Doe"s anyone know what's the matter (myodbc driver or
>something else ?)
>
>Thank's a lot.
>Philippe.
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>Please check "http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_toc.html" before
>posting. To request this thread, e-mail myodbc-thread231@stripped
>
>To unsubscribe, send a message to the address shown in the
>List-Unsubscribe header of this message. If you cannot see it,
>e-mail myodbc-unsubscribe@stripped instead.
>
>

Check the SIZE of the data in the record. If it is double what you expect
you have a string problem.

I expect you have fallen down the path of double-byte strings in VB. If you
ARE using strings use byte arrays instead. This should cure the problem. 

If you convert a string to a byte array, you have to skip every second
element. You are probably better off reading the file into a byte array to
start with.


---
Peter B. Carter (peterc@stripped)
Home: 613-562-1176
Pager: 613-751-4660